A new study finds that a trait helping a marine bacterium survive and flourish today may ultimately become its Achilles Heel as ocean conditions continue to shift.

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Kazakhstan faces a growing threat from antimicrobial resistance, driven by antibiotic overuse and low public awareness, but it also has a strong primary health care system that offers a solid ...

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

A novel F-actin-binding motif consisting of an α-helix hairpin from a Legionella pneumophila lysine fatty acyltransferase has the potential to be developed as an F-actin probe.

Hidden inside the human body, scientists have uncovered thousands of bizarre RNA loops unlike anything in biology. These ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their environment, for example, antibiotic-resistant bacteria stubbornly survive the usual ...

Individuals with lingering signs of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) months after recovering from COVID-19 were found to be older and to have significantly lower levels than normal of beneficial gut bacteria, ...

Background Up to half of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) require cardiac surgery. Although anaemia is common, its ...

A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese ...

AI systems have recently had a lot of success in one key aspect of biology: the relationship between a protein’s structure and its function. These efforts have included the ability to predict the ...

A team of researchers has developed a groundbreaking kinetic model that captures the complex dynamics between microalgae and bacteria in anaerobic digestion (AD) wastewater. The model, named ADBA ...